As part of the Christian religion I always opted for a Christian relationship (or marriage) counselor to help us with our relationship problems. We weren’t married, but we’re from a Christian background and we dearly loved each other so it wasn’t a stretch to try to take some advice from a Christian relationship counselor. My experience was good, and I think I did benefit from the discussions. However, I would have to say I got a whole lot more relevant information from an online relationship guru.
I learned that most religious relationship counseling tends to focus on the religious aspect of the relationship. That wasn’t a problem for us, and I think focusing specifically on that aspect may have even led us away from the true issues affecting our relationship.
As it turned out, our relationship was not very much different than 99% of all the other relationships out there. We had our ups, downs, in betweens, and moments where we just got too aggravated with one another. We even lost the ability to share our special moments together due to a lack of understanding each other and understanding how relationship grow and move in all sorts of directions. The online relationship advice we got, from a man named T.W. Jackson, showed us how to grow with it.
T.W Jackson helped us indentify the exact root cause of our troubles and his methods explained exactly how we can work with our issues to eliminate them entirely. This had nothing to do with our religious belief, which we both still practice faithfully, but it had everything to do with typical relationship growing pains.
So, in the comparison of what helped us more, the Christian marriage counselor or T.W. Jackson, we would have to pick T.W. Jackson. It really wasn’t even close.